I'll give that a go. Thanks for your advice. On 18 March 2015 at 16:07, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not aware of a way to set other git parameters globally. Since each > global git parameter has the chance to surprise the git plugin with > conditions it had never before seen, I'm hesitant to allow a lot of > different global configuration settings. > > The e-mail and user name settings are required in order to avoid a warning > / complaint from git. > > The core.longpath setting is a Windows specific setting, and it is > accompanied by warnings in the msysgit documentation. There are tests in > the git client plugin GitAPITestCase that assert core.longpaths works as > expected when using command line git. > > You could also consider enabling JGit and using JGit on your Windows > machines. The JGit implementation does not have the path length > limitations of msysgit. > > Mark Waite > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:42 AM, RDR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Hopefully this is a simple question and I'm missing something obvious.... >> >> I'm running Jenkins on a Windows based OS and I'm pulling my code from >> Git. However the job is failing with the message: >> >> Could not checkout null with start point >> >> >> After a bit of digging it turns out that the path for some of the files >> exceeds the Windows 260 character limit. Since I'm using git version 1.9.5 >> I'd like to use the git >> "core.longpaths true" setting to get around this problem... >> >> My question is how to enable this setting inside Jenkins. In the *Configure >> Jenkins* screen I can see options to set "user.name" and "user.email" but >> that's all. >> I don't don't appear to be able set "core.longpaths" (or any other git >> configuration). Does Jenkins only support these two configuration options or >> have I missed something? >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAB9wPTQGtVqDKCANSYERi886gP5hd-4HXdn6wUEYrJ%2B9iLTBKw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAB9wPTQGtVqDKCANSYERi886gP5hd-4HXdn6wUEYrJ%2B9iLTBKw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Thanks! > Mark Waite > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFtNk4dV_HezLvzLEG8sQGkhuJ%3DKX3X2rOPbbhmvRmO1Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFtNk4dV_HezLvzLEG8sQGkhuJ%3DKX3X2rOPbbhmvRmO1Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAB9wPTTQO0bguf8Q9yeP2zzrtHnU8hfYzOqGBfj8h-Noik93SQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
